*Day 9 - Cluney / Musee D'Orsay

Cluney







Chaube
western France and Iberia, Bronze Age gold






























 Musee D'Orsay
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)Hercules Killing the Birds of Lake Stymphalis
1909
Gilded bronze statue  Trained first in Montauban and then in Toulouse, Bourdelle started work as an assistant in Rodin's studio. The two men were bound together by mutual admiration and respect, even if Bourdelle's desire for synthesis and construction in planes soon opposed him to Rodin's analytical modelling.

Alfred SISLEY, La forge à Marly-le-Roi, en 1875

Oil on canvas

JEUNE NOIR AU SABRE

By Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 

oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Arearea, also called Jokes
1892
Oil on canvasGauguin set off for his first visit to Tahiti, in search of traces of a primitive way of life. He took his inspiration for imaginary scenes in his paintings from what he saw around him, as well as from local stories and ancient religious traditions.Arearea is representative of these works where dream and reality coexist.



Paul Gauguin. And the Gold of Their Bodies (Et l'or de leurs corps). 1901. Oil on canvas.